3 Significant Things Today
1) I took leave (again). To work on my freelance job.
In case you do not know, my pre-blog days were spent doing websites. I said "do" because I'd admit, I am not a good designer. But I "do" websites because I know what a website needs, navigational wise and content wise.
That being said, I am not usually hired as a web consultant. No ordinary Singaporean company will pay their $$$ for that. People use me 'cos I can create a website. It's not always good money, as it's still a new media where clients don't know how to go about organising it. And they don't want to pay me extra to help them organise it(bleahz) and want to do it themselves (again, typical money-pinching Singaporean company mentality). So they get some person in the office, who knows nothing about the media, to do the coordination work, on top of their other duties. And alot of times, they gave me nothing(no content, no images) and expect me to come up with something. And when I charge them extra because I anticipate long-term tweaking work, they say I over-charge them.
Bleahz.
2) For the first time in my life, my father brought me a Western food meal for lunch.
It is significant because whenever my dad buys back things for dinner or supper, it's always hor fun, or char kway teow, or sang min, or hor fun again... The only closest non-chinese food he bought were fried chicken from some coffee shop, you know, that kind that you find in some western food stall.
Today, when he came home and saw me, he asked me have I had my lunch, and I told him no. Then he said he will go and buy char kway teow for me. Then to my surprise, he came back with 2 sets of western food, one for me, one for ma (yeah, even for my mother too!). I felt loved. :) He actually got something that he thinks I would like, seeing that I prefer deep fried food most of the time :P Though the pork chop was made up of 60% bone and 20% fatty skin... (Which made me wonder why nice moments are always coupled with less than desirable complimentary event/stuffs that brought out the nice moment... to contrast?!) Then he said he also bought something for "some old folk at the one-room flat opposite", he said in Cantonese. My father is not good with explaining, so I didn't probe further. I just hope it's not some secret "relative" living there... :P
3) I had durians!
I have not eaten them since the beginning of this year, or may even last year. Dad bought 3 home today, after dinner. They were all very good! Yummy... I couldn't help laughing as we eat the durians. It's been so long... Yum yum...
4) Oh, there's a forth one...
I met the pastor from PC when I went jogging at the park today. Would you believe it? Meeting your pastor while jogging? When we met again the 2nd time on the track, he told me I could share with "them" what are my struggles, said he didn't contact me because he knew P.E. was following up on me, and he ended by saying, "come back lah...", coupled with a hand gesture.
In order not to meet him again, I cut short my jog (pffftt... No jogging on Wednesdays next time).
"Share my struggles? Come back? I don't want to come back, only to be used and drained up again. What's the point of going back when my problem (alongside with the others who are facing it) will not be resolved, not until the children of you deacons and pastors face the same problems as we have been facing? It's never going to be your problem, because it doesn't concern you. I don't want to go back to a place where people cease to be your friend when they got companions, and people "fellowship" with you, only when they want something from you."
~ the water drops. the typing stops. the mind whirls. the memory surfaces. the heart aches. ~
In case you do not know, my pre-blog days were spent doing websites. I said "do" because I'd admit, I am not a good designer. But I "do" websites because I know what a website needs, navigational wise and content wise.
That being said, I am not usually hired as a web consultant. No ordinary Singaporean company will pay their $$$ for that. People use me 'cos I can create a website. It's not always good money, as it's still a new media where clients don't know how to go about organising it. And they don't want to pay me extra to help them organise it(bleahz) and want to do it themselves (again, typical money-pinching Singaporean company mentality). So they get some person in the office, who knows nothing about the media, to do the coordination work, on top of their other duties. And alot of times, they gave me nothing(no content, no images) and expect me to come up with something. And when I charge them extra because I anticipate long-term tweaking work, they say I over-charge them.
Bleahz.
2) For the first time in my life, my father brought me a Western food meal for lunch.
It is significant because whenever my dad buys back things for dinner or supper, it's always hor fun, or char kway teow, or sang min, or hor fun again... The only closest non-chinese food he bought were fried chicken from some coffee shop, you know, that kind that you find in some western food stall.
Today, when he came home and saw me, he asked me have I had my lunch, and I told him no. Then he said he will go and buy char kway teow for me. Then to my surprise, he came back with 2 sets of western food, one for me, one for ma (yeah, even for my mother too!). I felt loved. :) He actually got something that he thinks I would like, seeing that I prefer deep fried food most of the time :P Though the pork chop was made up of 60% bone and 20% fatty skin... (Which made me wonder why nice moments are always coupled with less than desirable complimentary event/stuffs that brought out the nice moment... to contrast?!) Then he said he also bought something for "some old folk at the one-room flat opposite", he said in Cantonese. My father is not good with explaining, so I didn't probe further. I just hope it's not some secret "relative" living there... :P
3) I had durians!
I have not eaten them since the beginning of this year, or may even last year. Dad bought 3 home today, after dinner. They were all very good! Yummy... I couldn't help laughing as we eat the durians. It's been so long... Yum yum...
4) Oh, there's a forth one...
I met the pastor from PC when I went jogging at the park today. Would you believe it? Meeting your pastor while jogging? When we met again the 2nd time on the track, he told me I could share with "them" what are my struggles, said he didn't contact me because he knew P.E. was following up on me, and he ended by saying, "come back lah...", coupled with a hand gesture.
In order not to meet him again, I cut short my jog (pffftt... No jogging on Wednesdays next time).
"Share my struggles? Come back? I don't want to come back, only to be used and drained up again.
~ the water drops. the typing stops. the mind whirls. the memory surfaces. the heart aches. ~
2 Comments:
Very nice of your Dad to get the pork chop for you leh :) And wrt to the web design thingy, my Boss makes the most unreasonable requests too. Heh.
Yeah, it will be abnormal for a Singaporean boss to do otherwise :P
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